Thursday, March 15, 2012

Cliff's got a show on Sunday, March 18th!(and sport card shows are on the 3rd Saturday of every month.) All of these shows run at the Plainville V.F.W. Hall- 7 Northwest Dr. (Route 10) from 10 AM to 3 PM.99 CENT ADMISSION, CHILDREN UNDER 10 ARE FREE! Steve Kanaras and Matt Ryan will be there, now with a weekly strip just for Patch.com. We will talk about upcoming classes and special events. You can check everything that's going on at the site! www.freelunchcomics.com

Directions to the V.F.W. Hall: 84 East or West, take exit 32 and turn onto Route 10 North from the off-ramp. Follow Route 10 North for 4.5 miles, and turn right onto Northwest Drive. The V.F.W. Hall is on the left- follow the signs.

Matt C Ryan is a freelance cartoonist and comic book artist whose work spans from the comics industry to package design and advertising.

Since first being published with a pinup in an issue of Batton Lash's "Wolff and Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre" from Exhibit A Press, Matt has hit the ground running. He is creator and artist on the comic, BIGGER, published by Free Lunch Comics. Additional stories, characters, and sequential art appear in other titles from Free Lunch Comics as well as numerous other comics from Crazy Mama Studios, Guild Works Productions, Radbu Productions, and Blindwolf Studios. His larger body of work includes cartoons for a number of magazine ads and package and character designs for such clients as Dornenburg Design and Mark Lewis Creative Arts.

Matt has already been honored and recognized by a number of professional organizations. Matt was a member of the Farmington Valley Arts Center faculty for seven years and was named Master Teaching Artist by the Greater Hartford Arts Council. Shortly after joining the Comic Book Artists Guild, he was nominated head of the Connecticut branch and held that position until he stepped down in 2008. He remained a member until early 2009. In April 2008 at the New York ComicCon, he received the first-ever CAG award for production excellence. At the 2009 New York Comic Con CAG Awards, Matt received the Best Cartoonist and Best Workshop awards. Also, he was juried into the Granby Artists Association, a network of fine artists that partake in galleries, fundraisers, and mentoring activities. In 2011, he received the honors of President of the Granby Artists Association and the Head of the New England Chapter of the Comic Book Artists Guild.

Matt is happily married to the love of his life, Leigh Ann and they are parents to their beautiful girls, Ava and Alaina.